Wandering Mobile

Having Fun With UIVisualEffectViews in iOS 8 & Xamarin

As you have probable seen by now, UIVisualEffectView in iOS 8 gives us an easy way to apply a blur or vibrancy effect to UI elements. While alone this effect is pretty cool, I wanted to see what we could do if we had a bit of fun with it.

Blurred MapView

The concept here is to force the focus on the location you wish the user to be looking. To do this we blur out the entire map but leave a circular transparent section in the centre. To do this we set up our view like this: